Located in Johnson City, Tennessee, on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, ETSU
is a regional university in the heart of traditional storytelling country.

Neighboring Jonesborough is home to the National Storytelling Festival, a seminal
venue for contemporary storytelling in the USA, as well as the National Storytelling
Network and International Storytelling Center, two preeminent professional storytelling
organizations.

Students in the ETSU Storytelling Program may concentrate on performance skills for
the sake of their present or intended professional storytelling career, or they may
focus on aspects of applied storytelling, to enhance their roles as teachers, ministers,
counselors, community workers, corporate trainers, healers, parents, grandparents,
or any combination thereof.